Weight is something you have to watch regularly or it will creep right back up on you one sneaky pound at a time. If you don't do something right away to get it back off, soon one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight, and eight become sixteen, and sixteen become thirty-two. Get my drift?
Anyway, I allowed life to interfere with watching my weight. I just ate whatever was handy and what looked good and all the work I had previously done was for nought because here I am back where I was only bigger. But I went part time at work in December and I had already decided that I'd start working my way back down when I was asked to join the Scaleback Alabama Weight Challenge. It would be one more source of positive support to head me down a path I had already decided to go on. In addition, the people I'm in the challenge with set up a support group on Facebook for us to use as a help for each other. And I went out and bought myself a Diet Counter Diary which has many, many calorie counts in the front, plus the diary which has daily tips and other neat stuff.
So TODAY I begin a new start. The Scaleback challenge ends at the end of April but my diet counter book has five months of daily and weekly wraps up in it, so I plan to use it at least that long. I need to lose about FIFTY pounds. That's attainable, one pound at a time-- over the course of a year-- if I keep at it and don't get extreme and, consequently, burn out.
